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Esyllt Jones
The Value of a Nurse
The pandemic has made visible long-standing and systemic problems in the Canadian healthcare system. It is a publicly funded system,…
Diary of a critical care doctor: Preface
On February 27, 2020, I started a journal, not sure where such writings would lead. While I have written many…
Imagining Public Health in the Early 19th Century
Today, a significant portion of the global population has ready access to vaccines, clean water, and universal healthcare. COVID-19 has,…
On the Line: Love and Rage and Pandemics
By Esyllt Jones
One of my unfinished pandemic-era tasks has been to write a short biographical piece on Helen Jury Armstrong, the organizer of working class women, and the embodiment of love and fire in the Winnipeg General Strike. Here, I explore how the influenza pandemic highlighted her unique brand of labour activism.
Postage & Pestilence
Postage Stamps and Public Health Postage stamps, with their mass reproduction and global dissemination, provide a means to promote awareness…
Pandemic Perspectives: a Conversation about Hamnet and Judith
In conversation: Judith Owens with Lynne Fernandez Literary scholar Judith Owens and political economist Lynn Fernandez discuss O’Farrell’s moving plague…
“Carried Away”: Alice Munro and History
By Esyllt Jones
A century ago, people living through World War I, the global influenza pandemic, and waves of social unrest experienced a world in turmoil. These world-historical events must have been interconnected, and those connections must have affected people’s lives.